Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Power of Habit


“The best contribution you can make to your employer, wife or husband, and children is your own personal development. Not self sacrifice, but self development and self investment.”

Jim Rohn


I’m glad I put a disclaimer in my last post as it was very late at night after ridiculous amounts of turkey. As far as Chris and his EI 90% of high performers have high EI not 80%. And 60% of job performance can be attributed to EI.

I also missed Dan Berg. His presentation was awesome because he picked the topic because it is something he struggles with, self promotion. His presentation was based on the book Shameless Self Promotion. I loved when he’d play his own devil’s advocate and say something like I really don’t agree with this but here is what she said. There will be more to come on this presentation like the 7 myths of bragging, brag bites, and the wisdom of bragglogs.

Craig’s presentation was based on the book First Things First. Lucy’s was based on the book Speed of Trust. I look forward to summarizing each lesson as individual posts in the future.

There, I think that corrects most of the inaccuracies from the first posts of the bestsalesteamever.blogspot.com.


Melinda started us off with a presentation of Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit. We had this crazy fire drill, walked down nine flights, stood around the parking lot and then made our way back up a set of stairs that wouldn’t open on our floor.

Did you know that 40% of action is habit initiated?

We must establish keystone habits like exercise or using willpower.

Habit = Cue / Routine / Reward
            To gain control of a habit pick the routine ahead of time and make the response to the cue a positive one.
           
·         Identify the routine
·         Experiment with rewards
·         Isolate the cue
·         Have a plan with action steps

What habits can you change to increase your productivity?

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